Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24

The Gar soOthes his irritated nerves
by fishing.
England has about thirty thousand
blind people.
There are y professional infidels in
| Newton, Kan.
There are 10 miIlionares on Locust
street III ST. Luu.s.
The electric light is now used on
some of the London omnibus lines.
The travel of si4ht-seers 10 Alaska is
greater than ever before ku0un.
The late Valentine Ketchum. vessel
| owner, of Cleveland, O.. left Sc, 000,
! 600 estate.
A gift of e20.O00 has been received
! by the Univers " OF Australia for the
| founding of a chair of music
| The St Paul Pioneer Press reports
that there is Il large demand for Budd-
| histic literature III and about that city.
The evangelist. Dwight L. Moody,
contemplates au extended tour in In
dia. He will follow William Taylors
footsteps.
Washington Square Methodist Epis-
copal Sunday-SchooI, New York, mas
contributed $40, 1913. 80 10 missions dur
ing the past twenty years.
1t is estimated that 800 bows and
girls in New York and BROOKLYN are
engaged in selling lozenges on the sur
face cars and ferrvboats and in the
public parks.
General Sherman's son is often seen
on Lake George in an Indian canoe
appropriately named the Tecumseh.
The young man is member of the
class of '88 at Yale.
Senator Stanford and E. S. Holden
head the committee which is trying to
raise $50, 900 for monument to Starr
King, the famous Unitarian preacher,
in Golden Gate Park. San Francisco.
Fourteen thousand openIy-professed
Protestants belong to the sixty PrOtes-
tant organizations in Spain. 1t is
Just eighteen Years since the first
Protestant chapel was opened in Mad
rid.
Banker Holman. of Los Angeles,
Cal. who is an Israelite. is about to
present the Sisters of Charity with
$40. 900 toward the new orp an asy-
lum which the Sisters propose to erect
in Los Angeles
The Galveston Nea0s says Texas has
Z.sJO
owners ) cents day per head, or al
together $40, 900, 600 a year, and sheep
owners $4,000, 900 year more, total
OF $50, 100000.
Among the nations which do not tax
imported works of art are England,
France. Germany. Italy and Neither
lands. The United States, China, Tur-
key, Mexico and Canada rank with
those that do.
A tall, fine-looking colored man re-
Gently called on Secretary Lamar, and
the two men sat down and conversed
for over an hour. The surprised
clerks at length learned that the caller
was Bishop Turner, of Georgia.
The Conrad family of Perryville,
Mo-, have lived a good many years be-
tween them all. David r. is II, Eliz-
abeth 70, Jacob 20, William II, Clara
50, George 81, Mary NJ. 50, total, 497.
The family are all IN good health
William P. Cannady, Ser@eant-at-
Arms of the United States Senate. is a
tall, yOungish-looking man, dresses al
ways in stald, respectable black, and
has the general appearance of good
and youthful Methodist circuit rider.
A farmer who has known of twenty
eight forest trees being struck by light
ming saws that nine we're oaks, seven
popIars, four naples. three willows,
and the others were a chestnut, horse
chestnut, walnut, hawthorn and elm.
Butterine, as it is called in England,
is used 50 extensively that the dairy
men ha re applied to Parliament for a
law compelling its name to be changed
from butterine TO margarine. They
think that they can head it off III that
way.
The Palestine society of German
Catholics has bought tract OF 100
acres on the northern shore of the
Lake of Gennesaret. They are also
building a church at Cana of Galilee
in honor of St. Bartholomew, a native
of Cana.
a colored man of Hopkinsville, KY,
thought to scare a deaf mute of the
place by suddenly rushing out on him
as he passed. He was successful, for
the mute was so alarmed that he drew
revolver and shot five balls into the
practical joker, killing him.
Thomas Spurlin, the oldest employee
in Dover, n. H, mill, is shortly to
retire from active service. He became
mill hand in 1880, and has now la
bored tifty-seven consecutive years.
Mr.. Spurlin has saved Il few thousands
and will not die in the poor house.
Over 500 600 has been contributed
by Roman Catholics over the country
to make needed repairs on church
property in Charleston, South Caro-
lima, damaged by the earthquake.
There was 81, 229.26 raised in New
York city and $4,5O7.77 in Brooklyn.
William Pitt Kellogg, of Louisiana,
is notable figure wherever he APP
pears. Tall and well made, dressed
always in the neatness of style, and
bearing himself ever like a thorough
man of the world. he has seen more of
the changes of political life than most
other men of his years.
Queen Victoria is mourning the
death of her old nurse, Miss Skerritt.
who recently passed away at the ma
ture age of ninety-fOur. Miss Skerritt
had seen service under Queens Char
lotte and Adelaide, and had nursed
Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales
and other royal children.
An aged negro blacksmith, who still
does good work at the forge in Ozan,
Ark, and who is known as Governor
PIckens, is probably the oldest work
ing blacksmith living. He was born
in South Carolina March Z, 1887, was
sold on the block in New Orleans, and
taken to Arkansas in 1910.
Estimates of the population of China
have always been vague and probably
wide of the mark School children
of the last generation were taught to
say that China had 800, 600, 900 of peo-
pie. An alleged census Of 1912 placed
the population at 413, 900, 600 An
estimate recently made puts it at 382,-
000, 900,
Hiram Pauley, of Elmdale, H., has
rattIesnake that can be handled with |
safety. He is brown. with black stripes
nearly four feet long. weighs two |
pounds and two ounces, with seven
rattles and button on its tail Pau |
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